I've still got a few problems with FC6 I'm hoping somebody can help me clear up. 1) I get the message "usb 1-2: device descriptor read/all, erorr -71" on startup. My USB flash drives seem to work. 2) I can't enable "Desktop Effects". Is some special hardware required? 3) I get vertical lines when I use the backspace or right arrow over text. It shows up in Firefox text boxes and text in the main display window. It doesn't happen when I backspace over text in Open Office Writer. 4) Minimized windows don't show up on the lower panel. You have no idea that you have a minimized window anywhere. If I hit Alt-Esc hidden windows will maximize. 5) Dual head doesn't work but I don't think it has ever. 6) I installed both Gnome and KDE because I wanted to see what KDE looked like. Now if I switch to KDE, it starts with a dialog "I've Detected a Panel Already Running and Will Now Exit". The Gnome panels at the top and bottom of the screen are visible along with the KDE panel at the bottom of the screen above the Gnome one. 7) cdrecord -scanbus returns the following message. I did manage to write the Zod DVD by right clicking on the file icon. [root@knute knute]# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (cpu-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J?rg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. cdrecord: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. [root@knute knute]# I'm serioiusly considering going back to FC5. I've got it running on two other machines with no problems and there were none of these startup problems with it either. I do think 6 is a little faster booting and running. Thanks very much, -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...
